I am a student NP. Should I put RN-BSN on my resume?

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Hi. I am a student NP, who graduate in August. I am not a FNP yet but I am looking for FNP job.

I put RN-BSN next to my name? Do you think I should put RN-BSN or should I delete that?

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I started as an ADN and never thought I would spend another day in school, but over time I had the desire to lead instead of follow and even teach. Twenty years later and many years in school I can say I will be a lifelong learner and hopefully there will always be something new to learn and someone new to teach

Yea, me too. Without the many years in school.

Lifelong learning is a part of nursing no matter what degree you hold.

(I learned that.)

:)

I never wanted to be an NP or an Educator. I've done the Admin. thing and it is not for me.

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Follow up? Evaluation? Collaboration?

I worked in a teaching hospital, we were all more of a team.

Well, that's good. I've yet to see a hospital where there wasn't an us versus them approach. That's the ideal setup you mention, but I think everyone should have designated roles as well. However, I'm not in a hospital and don't care anything about them so it's really just a matter of outside opinion. :)

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Well, that's good. I've yet to see a hospital where there wasn't an us versus them approach. That's the ideal setup you mention, but I think everyone should have designated roles as well. However, I'm not in a hospital and don't care anything about them so it's really just a matter of outside opinion. :)

Im with you on this. An employee/employer relationship is commentualistic at best. Be wary of the word team, even if whoever you work for makes you feel fluffy and purple inside.

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Specializes in Outpatient Psychiatry.
Im with you on this. An employee/employer relationship is commentualistic at best. Be wary of the word team, even if whoever you work for makes you feel fluffy and purple inside.

My friend, you should really devise a stand up routine. I think it's your solution when healthcare finally stops circling the drain before getting the final, stinky flush.

Xenogentic will be pushing his ADHD certification, I'll continue ******** about how nurses should be more professional, as if anyone will give a ****, and regret not becoming a doctor when I was fresh, and JulesA will continue to stay in hiding counting the American gold eagles she's piled away. And the critical care Juan guy will come up with a blog on which foundling nurses will pay him to share his insights into actually keeping patients alive while the rest of us hope they just come back in for more refills.

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I wouldn't. I believe that the title 'BSN' is enough. You could do one or the other, but both would be redundant. Some people say that you should use the highest degree only, and that sounds reasonable to me. If you are a student NP who is about to graduate in a few months then you should use the title FNP-Student (or Student-FNP) when investigating employment opportunities, not RN or BSN.

I have a doctoral degree, and although it looks and sounds very nice in academia and the health science community, it doesn't mean a thing to the patient's who I work with in clinical practice. Now I am working on a DNP degree and even after I finish that the only title that I will use in clinic is still 'ARNP'. If and when I decide to teach or write research articles for publication then I'd pull out the 'doctor' titles as formality and I would use only one. I would not do the alphabet soup with all my degrees (as so many nurses with advanced degrees do) because I think it looks ridiculous.

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Im with you on this. An employee/employer relationship is commentualistic at best. Be wary of the word team, even if whoever you work for makes you feel fluffy and purple inside.

Docs aren't my employers. The hospital is.

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